The biggest problem that Apple is creating for itself is not one that is being discussed directly in most of these threads: it's not about the loss in Mac sales, which they clearly don't give a damn about. It's the exodus of producers from their platform. Think about it. For those of you that were Mac fans before the iPhone and before it was cool to be so, who else do you know that used a Mac? Forget why, just who? T…
I have to disagree. Completely. First: Your theory isn't new. It's been discussed to death here and elsewhere. Second: There's no evidence that content creators are actually leaving the Mac. It's easy to look at the new machines and Apple's trends and conclude that, but go look on Youtube at any major content creator. FCPX is still popular. If not, Adobe on OSX is still very popular. I'm not suggesting that no one ha…
I don't know what product you are referring to, but we are decidedly not on the same page.
The MacBook Pro is not a "brand new Apple product." It was their bread and butter for a decade. There's nothing "new" about it. The touchbar as an iterative improvement, nothing more. It does not a new product make. If I were complaining about touchbar lag or resolution, you would have every right to make the comments you made and I would defer to them. But I'm not.
Are you trying to tell me that power users use laptops exclusively? Or that the Mac Pro's half-a-decade-old "latest" release is part of this cunning plan and not indicative of systemic failure? How is five years between releases not indicative of systemic abandonment of power users? Even if it's not officially abandoned, it is very much realistically abandoned by any metric that matters, whether you care to admit it or not.
> Apple's Mac sales are not, in _any_ way, propped up by professionals
They're not and I didn't say they are. But they were and I'm saying they will be once more.
> Apple's lack of updates to the Mac Pro has been unfortunate, but hasn't hurt their bottom line.
Yes. That's my point. They've taken "it's not hurting our bottom line" to mean "it won't hurt our bottom line, let's do it some more" and I argue that is the definition of systemic failure.
I laid out a clear pattern that's been developing since the Mac Pro was released in 2012, continuing with the discontinuation of the Mac Server in 2013, and ending with this mess now with the MBP. A pattern is not an isolated incident, it's not a "we goofed up with the last release," it's not a "early adopters are sure to find issues, just give it a time." It's the very definition of a company that has shifted its priorities and does not care about this particular section of the market. I don't see how you can argue about that point - it's clear and no one else is denying it. My comment was arguing the _effects_ of that decision, and whether or not they will continue to drive Apple sales downwards. I argue yes. Others argue no. But there's no point in trying to pretend that Apple still gives a damn about prosumers, because they don't.
Federighi saying during the event releasing the emoji MBP "with the touchpad, you can type faster because the autocorrect pops up right there" is, as they say, the proof in the pudding. Which prosumer types so slow on a keyboard that it would be faster to move your hands away from the keyboard, press the autocomplete, and move them back? Give me a break.